nba off season 2024 bud 2 suns etc

welcome to the ‘eason

eason down the road

yeah the drafting hasnt been up to spurs standards over that period, they did get wemby lol, tho one or two of those guys develop well and its looking a lot better xp

yeah vassell they hit but besides that its looking pretty rough, 3 lottery picks bunch of others and one guy to show for it, tho obvs theres still time for the others to get there

pretty lucky for the league that this story is dropping right as the playoffs are starting and not like in October

― frogbs, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 10:19 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

REALLY lucky it was an nba nobody and not some hall of famer vet or something in between, get to drop the hammer on a scrub

a good player's little brother

Thanasis better not mess around

thanasis seems like an MLM guy for sure

I’m sorry if you changed your bet based on jontay porter. Such valuable info

Hawks have 2 first rounders to help turn things around before years of handing their picks to the spurs. Kind of the the Duke wite would be a good fit

it was a player prop

an NBA bettor subsequently placed an $80,000 parlay proposition bet with an online sports book, to win $1.1 million, wagering that Porter would underperform in the March 20 game

then porter tapped out early in the game with a flare up of an existing injury

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

Ah thanks goon. Don’t really see the gambling thing going well but what do I know

the vibes are vile but im sure the nba will make tons of money off it, which is nice for them

big games tonight for who will not play the celtics and who will maybe play the celtics

rooting for 76ers to not play the celtics

i really don’t think the heat will win tonight but sticking boston w/ philly is prob the most damaging thing they can do in these playoffs

the one bright side i guess to playing philly now is getting embiid so soon off injury

This game talk is for the INS, not for those of us already languishing in the OFFS EASON.

oops my bad

cracking up at lagoon making two imperceptible thread titles and then being the first one to screw it up

hoisted with my own petard

it’s driving me nuts lol they’re right next to each other on bookmarks too and are indistinguishable on quick glance

heh

it's the eason for the season

spurs should draft alex sarr and go full team frahnce

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 17, 2024 3:26 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they could def go for paris texas status, they already have wemby and sidy cissoko (played mostly g league, but should probably get more time in the big club this year). theres not only sarr but risacher and tidjane salaun likely going in the lottery. i think risacher would be a great fit if he's as good a shooter as he seems, sarr im less convinced would work as a non-floor spreading big next to wemby.

wim wenders player intro hype video

Spurs would have the no. 1 pick with the "Gold Plan":

Thanks for continuing to champion the Gold Plan!

Here's the NBA version, with the Spurs running away with a second straight #1 pick by playing hard down the stretch.

We'll ask again, how's that not better?#PorVida pic.twitter.com/HpmvkmO69L

— Chuck (@ChuckSportsApp) April 15, 2024

im sorry i will never support anything with this obamacare exchange ass sounding name

lol it was invented by a guy named Gold!

which is kind of Obamacare-esque really

ha

what a coincidence that the guy who made obamacare was named obama

I didn't realize that Jontay Porter is Michael Porter Jr.'s brother, or that his other bro Coban was about to do eight years in prison for drunk driving/killing a lady.

damn rough times for the porter family

in this clip you can’t see woj blinking out the morse code for D-O-N-O-V-A-N-M-I-T-C-H-E-L-L with his eyes

Adrian Wojnarowski says that the Miami Heat are well-positioned to potentially acquire a star who aligns with Bam Adebayo's age timeline

(h/t @ohnohedidnt24 )

pic.twitter.com/xrJGy6HYF6

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) April 19, 2024

*shein influencer saying “okay” video*

Woj: "It's gonna be a different summer in the NBA. I think there are gonna be a lot of guys entering the NBA portal and I think there's gonna be a lot more player movement this summer." pic.twitter.com/sQpf6neTto

— Oh No He Didn't (@ohnohedidnt24) April 19, 2024

entering the portal

portal check

portal rico babyyyy

hes prob right, hawks gotta trade one of trae or dejounte, gsw could shake things up, lebron could leave la, bulls might finally blow it up, the aforementioned d mitch, utah might go full tank 4 cooper and trade lauri, who knows who might flame out in the offs early and panic trade we could be seeing some deals folks which is almost as good as the games

woj and shams secret conspiracy to destroy the english language via nba rumormongoring

shams should actually be forced to use AI to write for him, he would be more legible

they're too busy entering portals to learn how to write or hire an editor

the nytimes bought the athletic as a way to save on editing their sports section

FX has released the official trailer for “Clipped,” the docudrama about former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. It airs June 4 on Hulu

Ed O’Neill plays Sterling, Doc Rivers is portrayed by Laurence Fishburne, J. Alphonse Nicholson is Chris Paul pic.twitter.com/pA4V0hIs1k

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 25, 2024

does blake griffin play himself?

Funny how Al Bundy is doing a voice but not Fishburne -- when did Doc's voice go?

Shams was ready

Inside the waning voice of Frank Vogel, offensive issues around the Suns and their Big 3, and what comes next for one of the NBA’s most expensive rosters after a first-round sweep — with @DougHaller at @TheAthletic:https://t.co/HCS0dJGrso

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 29, 2024

i really struggle to see the immediate fit in atl with jalen being a big wing, okongwu trying to be a bam type 5, they really need a stretch big which i guess if you think sarr's shot can develop he could be.

rumor is that snyder likes clingan as a gobert type 5 (remember his utah days) so thats why theres some scuttlebutt about atl trading down so someone can trade up for risacher.

quin down bad

my only prediction in this year's draft is chaos, gonna be a lot of teams who value guys differently and we'll see guys who are mocked top 10 fall to the 20s and some randos are gonna get called up early

and probably a lot of trades, esp 2nd rounders to 2nd apron teams

i don’t see why any team would trade up in this draft

certainly not into the top 5 or 10 or anything that would cost real assets

if i’m atlanta i’m either taking a project or a big man but i am not taking a project big man. if the argument for clingan is that you’re confident he can be a good starting center and you just want that certainty then cool. otherwise i’m going for whoever i think is most likely to be a top 2 ball handler/scorer on a good team. simply from a value perspective i think that’s the swing you have to take

taht guy might not exist in this draft, but u might be describing future #1 pick reed sheppard

the logic of trading up is i guess if you're like the knicks (#24 and 25) and you dont want to try and work in two rookies onto a team thats trying to compete now, and maybe you feel more certain about a guy who'll be off the board by the time it's your turn. portland and sa should both by taking their two lotto picks bc they need as many spins of the wheel of talent as they can get.

you can’t make an nba defense out of sheppard and trae young

they would trade trae

i also don’t think there’s gonna be many teams looking to take on multiple players in this draft either. i think it will actually be a pretty static draft at least thru middle of the first round bcuz i don’t think teams asking for future assets are gonna get them

i wouldn’t trade trae just to get a younger guy who might share his problems

don’t really like any top draft prospects this year but i have optimism that rob dillingham can become a jamal crawford type

reed sheppard as no 1 overall pick just doesn’t pass the smell test to me regardless of the team

im looking at guys like risacher, castle, jalen williams brother, buzeilis

nobody in this draft is a #1 pick archetype tho, right now it's sarr (can he even play) and risacher (will never be a lead ballhandler, might be a cam johnson or mpj type at best) getting most of the attention, imo teams should not care about reaching and just get guys who will fit with their current stars or are versatile enough to fit in multiple schemes

spurs fans are salivating over castle, i dont see it yet. spurs spacing is so bad right now, and he'd be a project.

buzelis is interesting bc he's the sort of athletic big wing that every team needs, i just dont know if he's good at basketball haha

g league route is gonna be less and less common if the prospects are perceived to not develop and they can make more money at duke

exactly, NIL killed the ignite (this is praise)

literally

spurs fans are salivating over castle, i dont see it yet. spurs spacing is so bad right now, and he'd be a project.

― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Sunday, June 16, 2024 6:02 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

he shot 75% from the line which implies that he could get to dece three point shooting, but his whole game is kinda like that squint at him and he looks like a really good nba player but his upside is prob more likely solid starter, on the other hand everyone in this years draft is like that

how about williams at 4 and topic at 8

should be interesting to see what the market is for these tier 2 or 3 level stars

The New Orleans Pelicans are unwilling to pay Brandon Ingram an average of $52 million annually, per @cclark_13

“Brandon Ingram has one year remaining on his contract. On July 6, he becomes eligible to sign a four-year extension worth $208 million. The Pelicans value Ingram’s… pic.twitter.com/LrG46jQjPl

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) June 17, 2024

feel like topic could be a steal guy who put up numbers in europe at 18 years old, seems like a bad 3pt shooter (30%) but could possibly be a very good one (88%ft!) and is dropping due to a torn acl an injury that players tend to recover fully from, has elite feel for the game and an elite skill (passing), great height (6-6) for his position (pg)

not going to pretend i've broken down castle tape but one thing that intrigues me about him is that you usually don't see the best play from, or the full games of, young ball handlers on loaded college teams, especially ones w/ dominant big men. this is largely why so many kentucky guards over perform in the NBA. uconn had three perimeter players who, from what i can tell, are borderline NBA prospects take more shots than castle.

i watched some castle clips and the thing that made me think hes not going to be a star is he wasnt getting those easy buckets against a set halfcourt defense that make it obvious hes just much better than the guys hes playing against, he was effective but it was more of a craft thing working his way to the basket with multiple dribble moves, and his shooting isnt great, athleticism prob nba average, good but not overpowering size, almost certainly a guy who will get minutes in the nba but i dont see the high upside there

has elite feel for the game and an elite skill (passing), great height (6-6) for his position (pg)

the heat have done a good developing nikola jovic, but you can also watch highlights from his first ever summer league game and see that he just had a good feel for how to play basketball, naturally looked to pass, had good height even tho he was skinny, had some skill w/ the ball etc (read the first ever post on jordan's heat bløg). even if he is only ever a good bench player the four guys drafted ahead of him were david roddy, marjon beauchamp, blake wesley, and wendell moore jr. i still think feel for the game, ability + willingness to pass, ballhandling skill etc the euro way are underrated in the draft

for sure, feel pretty confident that jovic is going to be much more than a good bench player too

another thing re castle is hes convinced hes a point guard refuses to workout for teams that already have one, its just weird theres no evidence that hes got the stuff to play there in the nba, i mean i get the vision he would be more valuable if it were true but idk if he just expects teams to believe him

i believe castle can become an average-ish shooter maybe, tho tbh im not that swayed by ft% as a harbinger of 3p potential if its just around league average. (ie tre jones came in with similar shooting woes, has improved a lot from the outside and from ft and he's still below average as a 3pt threat).

spurs desperately need a lead guard who is a threat to pull up from 3 and/or blow by defenders to create space for wemby, and i dont think castle will do either of those things well enough. if he cant be a starting pg, then hes kind of a utility wing which is a good bench player at least. guy who i like more: devin carter who has a lot of the same defensive upside as castle with a lot more offensive polish. my bias is guys with legit two-way skillsets and i like him more than any other guard prospect.

dont know what to make of williams bc he shot well from 3 but on very low volume. i think he will fit well as a transition threat, and he is archetypally the kind of player that the spurs could use as a wingmate for vassell. i think hes a high upside swing, i wouldnt mind it for them.

im not a huge topic fan, i think hes too slow and has too short arms to be a plus defender and i want players who can't be hunted on switches.

good reminder that very few things can overcome bad ownership

Source: The Bulls passed on multiple offers to trade Alex Caruso for multiple picks, including one in the top 10 of the 2024 draft

The reason? A mandate from ownership at the trade deadline to push for the playoffs

More —> https://t.co/AAdSMkcPrc

— Will Gottlieb (@Will_Gottlieb) June 17, 2024

lol thats so dumb

topic is a baller you cant build a team around all solid two way guys you need ballers

spurs could just trade for garland tho

xxp

A mandate from ownership at the trade deadline to push for the playoffs

lol

xp imho carter has that dog in him. i dont hate topic, tho, i think he can hoop.